Early Modern English Attitudes To Marriage

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Many letters between King James I and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham have survived, revealing to historians a romantic, and most likely sexual, nature to their relationship. James repeats ardent professions of love, longing, and lavish praises, and the duke’s replies allude to their intimate sexual history. In one of the king’s letters, written to Villiers in December of 1623, James makes multiple references that associate their relationship with a marriage. While these connections have the obvious implications of evidence for same-sex desire between the pair, they also reveal certain Early Modern English attitudes towards romantic love and its significance to marriage. In the letter, James proclaims his love by relating it to that of

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